Fw: "Blue balls"

Sun Jun 7 18:00:24 UTC 2009

Here is the email with examples... hopefully this get through from a
different computer and in plain text.

----- Original Message -----
From: "JohnPatrick" <j0hnpatrick at aol.com>
To: <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:15 PM
Subject: Re:"Blue balls"

Greetings,

It seems that "Blue balls" can be a venereal disease (that causes the
scrotum to turn blue) or a condition of sexual lust.

Below are several examples.

Yours,

John Patrick
~

Sung to the tune of "Sound Off" below is a link that ends in the
following verse:

     "Ho Chi Min is a son of a bitch!
     Got the blue balls, crabs and the seven year itch"

  From here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwYWzrK1fc

This segment is from the movie "Full Metal Jacket".

 From the song "The Castration of the Strawberry Roan" performed by The
Sons of the Pioneers and recorded in 1942:

   O, that strawberry roan
   How many colts has he thrown?
   He's got gonorrhea, the glanders and syph
   The blue-balls and claps
   But his tool is still stiff
   Look out for that strawberry roan

 From the song "Ring-Dang-Do" sung by Glenn Orlin. First learned in the
1950s while cowboying.

   From Arkansas come a son-of-a-bitch
   He had the clap and the seven-year-itch
   He had the syph and the blue balls too
   And he left them all in her ring-dang-do.

 From the song "Blue Balls from Belman" sung by Buford Pipen.  Issued on
the 1981 LP Just Something My Uncle Told Me.  Learned in the 1930s.

   Blue Balls From Bellman
   Sung by "Buford Pippin"

       Blue balls from Bellman
       Come boys, come.

   Well they sure hung a sign[???]
   Hung a sign on her back door
   One dollar down no less will do
   To get a little smell of my ring-tang-do

       Blue balls from Bellman
       Come boys, come.

   Ain't coming after with a knife in the grass
   Cut off my dick, cut close to my ass

       Blue balls from Bellmen
       Come boys, come.

Parody of School Days in the folklore collection titled "Apples of Eden"
1945:

          School Days

   School days, school days,
   Good old golden rule days
   First you get blue balls and then you get clap,
   And then you get hell from your mammy and pap,
   And then to the doctor you must go,
   And get old John wrapped up in calico.
   When you wrote on my slate,
   "I burnt you so"
   When, we were a couple of kids.

TIE MY PECKER TO A TREE
(Tune: Chisolm Trail)

CHORUS:
Come and tie my pecker to a tree, to a tree
Come and tie my pecker to a tree

Fucked her sittin', fucked her lyin'
If I'd had wings I'd fucked her flying

I awoke in the morning and guess what I saw
Fifteen crabs and big blue balls

I went to a doctor cause my pecker was sore
My God said the doctor you've been taken by a whore

And now you can see I'm a peckerless man
I fuck 'em with my finger and fool 'em when I can

The song "Ricky Dan Do" in the 1971 Australian fighter pilot songbook
_Songs My Mother Taught Me_

   There came a guy, a son of a bitch,
   Who had the pox and the sailor's itch,
   He had blue balls and shankers too,
   And he played all night with her Ricky Dan Do

The song "Ring Dang Do" in the songbook"Songs of Raunch" issued at UCLA
in 1958.

    How from out the hills there cciae a son-of-a-bitch
    He had the clap* and the seven year itch     *(clap hands)
    He had the syph and the blue balls too,
    And she let him ride on the Ring Dang Doo.

This is the complete song of "John Brown's Body" from an untitled marine
songbook c1943.

    JOHN BROWN'S BODY

    John Brownfs body1s in a better place than this,
    Far from the clap and the dirty syphilis;
    Blue-balls,.and the chancre, and the granulated piss:
    His balls are soldered on!
    Glory, glory, gonorrhea! Glory, glory, gonorrhea!
    Glory, glory, gonorrhea! His balls are soldered on!

Another "Ring Dang Do" from the Death Rattler's 1951 marine songbook.

   so along came a prick named mobey dick
   he had the syph and the seven year itch
   he had the clap and the blue balls too
   and he put them ail in the ring dang doo

 From an untitled Hash House Harrier songbook c2006

   WHO NEEDS SEX?
   Melody - Three Blind Mice

   Who needs sex?
   Who needs sex?
   It's no fun,
   It's no fun,

  You meet a new women and go on a date,
  You hug and you kiss and you think that it's great,
  She gives you blue balls and you masturbate,
  So, who needs sex?

The Sewing Machine
The tune is "Down in the Valley."

Down in Cunt Valley, where the bullshit runs thick,
Where the soldier boys ramble, and babies come quick,
That's where she lives, the gal I adore,
That cock-sucking hussy, the Heidelberg whore.

She took me upstairs and she turned out the light,
And she said, "Big boy, you're here for the night."
So I took down my pants and I crawled in between,
And I started to sew on her sewing machine.

I sewed and I sewed until crack of dawn,
Then she said, "Big boy, you had better be gone.
Come back tomorrow night without being seen,
And you're welcome to sew on my sewing machine."

She gave me the clap and the blue-balls too.
The clap doesn't hurt, but the blue-balls do.
For seventeen days, she hasn't been seen.
I hope she's in Hell with her sewing machine.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:36 AM
Subject: "Blue balls"

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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      "Blue balls"
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>
> When I was a freshman in high school, Harry Gleason, the asshole who
> sat in front of me, used to use the just-for-the-hell-of-it phrase:
>
> "_Blue-balled_ bastard from Piss-Pot Creek"
>
> This, (9/1950) was the first time that I had heard "blue balls" or any
> of its variations, combinations, permutations, or probabilities. The
> phrase, in that context or any other, meant nothing to me and
> continued to mean nothing till ca.1991. When a (white) friend happened
> to use the phrase, "blue balls," for some reason, I finally felt like
> asking what it meant. From the explanation, I divined that "blue
> balls" was the white term for "lover's nuts." That satisfied me till I
> listened to a blues recorded in 1934 by Walter Roland, whoever he was,
> of Alabama. This song opens with the verse:
>
> You know, since I lef' Cincinnati
> You know I had somethin' on my mind
> [...] the head o' my dick
> And blue balls in my groin
>
> "Groin" is pronounced as "grin(d)" and, hence, rhymes with "min(d)."
> Apparently, this was *a*, if not *the*, usual pronunciation of -oin at
> one time, since I've also come across, e.g. "suhline steak" for
> "sirloin steak." It may still be used, somewhere or other. You never
> know. IME, there's no conversation to speak of, WRT different kinds of
> steak and "crouch," i.e. "crotch" (eggcorn?) is the word for "groin."
> A Los Angeles oddity: Japanese-American (_sansei_) friends of mine who
> spoke the local standard and made no attempt to get linguistically
> down with the colored people, nevertheless used "crouch" for "crotch"
> and were fully persuaded of its correctness:
>
> S. "... crouch ..."
>
> W. "You mean, 'crotch.' "
>
> S. "What? [Has no idea WTF I'm talking about] Anyway, as I was saying,
> ... crouch ..."
>
> They didn't spell it "crouch. They just pronounced it that way, just
> as I once said "mordn," but wrote "modern."
>
>
> IAC, this is the first time that I've ever heard "blue balls" used,
> except in its literal meaning, by a black person in my life.
> Consequently, I would have bet money, heretofore, that the average
> black male of whatever age probably had also never heard it. If it
> wasn't for the fact that, to paraphrase Dave Chapelle, "I know white
> people," I would have no idea what "blue balls in my groin / croutch"
> could possibly have meant, back in '34, since it would be brand-new to
> me.
>
> BTW, the black Cincinnatians that I know say "Cincinnnata," not
> "Cincinnati," as Roland says.
>
> And that reminds me of my grandparents, who used "Missoura." I once
> read somewhere that, speaking sociologically, there is a "Northern"
> Missouri - Saint Louis, Kansas City, Jefferson City - with final [i] /
> [I]., and a "Southern" Missouri - "outstate" - with final [@].
>
> My grandparents never lived anywhere but East Texas, yet their natural
> pronunciation of "Missouri" was the "Southern" one. And I would bet
> that they never had occasion to say "Missouri" more than fifty times
> altogether in their entire lives. How weird is that?
>
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
>
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